Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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I'm a slow starter.
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
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When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
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There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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Management must manage!
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.
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Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.
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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.
